Title: Modelling and optimisation of facility layout problem using firefly algorithm

Authors: Ferdous Sarwar; Noman H. Chowdhury; Syed Helal Uddin

Addresses: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh ' Department of Information Systems, University of Newcastle, Australia ' Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

Abstract: Facilities planning is a critical issue in today's competitive manufacturing and service sectors. With rapidly increasing global competition, elimination of waste and continuous improvement of productivity is vital that greatly depends on how people plan, organise and utilise the facilities in an organisation. In facility layout problems, objective functions are modelled with different objectives that include minimisation of cost or flow of materials, maximisations of closeness rewards, etc. This paper proposes a mathematical model with a continuous representation of distance-based adjacency matrix. The resulting exact model will consider every all-rectangular-department solutions. A nature-inspired firefly algorithm is applied to find out the solution of the model.

Keywords: facility layout; firefly algorithm; multi-objective optimisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2020.107209

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2020 Vol.36 No.2, pp.189 - 203

Received: 06 Jul 2017
Accepted: 24 Feb 2018
Published online: 11 May 2020 *

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